Today's PLANNED lesson was about composition and decomposition, however, our ACTUAL lesson came from student comments and a student question about our poem of the day.
Student A: "I bet there are 1000 words" (student gets the teacher look - you know the one we all do when an answer is completely unreasonable) "Well OK, less than 1000 - we could count and see." We counted 40 words.
Student B: "Maybe 1000 letters then". We counted 179 letters
Student C: "Are there more letters on the board or more letters in the alphabet?"
Math is about asking for questions and looking for answers.
Student A: "I bet there are 1000 words" (student gets the teacher look - you know the one we all do when an answer is completely unreasonable) "Well OK, less than 1000 - we could count and see." We counted 40 words.
Student B: "Maybe 1000 letters then". We counted 179 letters
Student C: "Are there more letters on the board or more letters in the alphabet?"
Math is about asking for questions and looking for answers.
Math is about counting and comparing
We counted the words and letters in our poem, worked in pairs to sequence the alphabet, counted the letters in the alphabet, and we compared the quantities we counted.